India Today Group Editor-in-Chief talks about why the threat to citizen rights and civil liberties is mounting, in the November 18 edition of the India Today Magazine.

Increasing threats to civil liberties in India

From Jawaharlal Nehru to Rajiv Gandhi, powerful assaults on our freedom of speech have been made by famed netas. Narendra Modi criticised this. But how does he explain the Prashant Kanojia event?

Because The Emergency ended. Didn't it? Prashant Kanojia and Priyanka Sharma cases have us wondering

But, for the few who still care about dissent and the right to decide for their own selves, I challenge this.

Mogambo Khush Hua? What the arrest of Prashant Kanojia says about the rest of us

Veteran actor Amol Palekar's speech at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) was cut short for being critical, even if mildly, of the government. This was not the first instance of the suppression of free speech under the Modi sarkaar.

Amol Palekar is only a symptom. The malaise of fascist thought-control is now deep within us

Indranil Roy, a veteran film journalist, offended film star and TMC MP Dev with one simple tweet.

A scary story about being harassed by cops over a tweet in West Bengal

Indranil Roy, a veteran film journalist, apparently offended film star and TMC MP Dev with one simple tweet.

The move brings to the fore the party's duplicitousness in using religion to strengthen its hold over power.

How Congress govt in Punjab is attacking freedom of speech with law against 'sacrilege' of religious texts

The move brings to the fore the party's duplicity in using religion to strengthen its hold over power.

The festival has come under attack from Left-leaning voices.

Why the Pondy Lit Fest is caught in an ideological crossfire

A section of the Left is not only highly intolerant of differing opinions but does not hesitate to bully or threaten its opponents into silence or submission.

Top thinkers assess how far India has come, at 71, to give us the freedom to be who we are and the best we can be.

71 years of Independence: How free are we?

PM Modi asks for Independence Day speech ideas: Why India's needs a 'pradhan sevak' with his own vision

PM Modi asks for Independence Day speech ideas: Why India needs a 'pradhan sevak' with his own vision

Why outsource this job? The PM should explain his vision and genuinely listen to ours.

It is difficult to draw the line between an 'ordinary' citizen questioning the fate of his tax money in a tea shop and an 'intellectual' who does the same through writing.

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